Donald Trump 'will spend a night in jail' for violating gag order, lawyer warns
Donald Trump has been left furious with the gag order imposed against him in his federal election subversion criminal case.
Donald Trump could face jail time after appearing to violate a gag order in his federal election subversion criminal case, a former White House attorney has warned.
Trump, 77, took to Trush Social on Monday to lambast key figures involved in the case after Judge Tanya Chutkan reinstated the gag order.
He wrote: "The Obama-appointed federal judge in D.C., a TRUE TRUMP HATER, is incapable of giving me a fair trial. Her hatred of President DONALD J. TRUMP is so great that she has been diagnosed with a major, and incurable, case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME!"
He also lambasted his former Attorney General and potential witness William Barr, raging: "I called Bill Barr Dumb, Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy, a RINO WHO COULDN'T DO THE JOB."
But former White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who was a member of the Trump administration legal team, warned 77-year-old may have to "spend a night or a weekend in jail" for violating the gag order.
He told CNN's Erin Burnett: "I think it's going to take that. I think it'll take that to stop him."
Trump has already been fined $10,000 for violating a gag order in his business civil fraud lawsuit after telling reporters that New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron - the judge involved in that particular case - was "very partisan."
But Cobb warned the latest comments from the former president are in a federal case and that there could be more significant punishments.
He said of the New York lawsuit: "That's in a civil case. That's not as consequential as Judge Chutkan's case.
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"I think she'll come in with a much heavier penalty, and ultimately, I think he'll spend a night or a weekend in jail."
Trump has been left furious by the gag order that has been imposed against him. It had initially been frozen for nine days following an appeal before it was reinstated.
The gag order, which was issued after prosecutors raised concerns the former president could potentially intimidate witnesses or encourage harm against prosecutors through his public comment, essentially limits what he can say publicly about the case.
It also states he must not target court personnel, potential witnesses, or special counsel Jack Smith and his staff with any public statements he makes.
